Revolut pridobil odobritev za ponudbo bitcoinov in kriptovalut 17 milijonom evropskih uporabnikov: poročilo

• Digital bank Revolut has received approval to offer bitcoin and crypto services to 17 million customers in the EEA.
• The nod comes prior to the introduction of an European overhaul legal framework for digital assets and service providers.
• The bank will continue to offer services in the U.K. and service its existing 20 million users.

Revolut, a digital bank with 20 million customers, has received approval from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CYSEC) to allow it to offer bitcoin and crypto services across the European Economic Area (EEA), per a report from AltFi.

The authorization will enable Revolut to offer bitcoin services throughout the EEA to 17 million customers through a digital asset hub it plans to build out in Cyprus. The company also noted it will continue to serve its U.K. constituency even though its application through the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has yet to be resolved. Revolut, however, is still able to operate under the FCA’s Začasni režim registracije.

Odobritev Revoluta prihaja pred čakajočim zakonom o trgih kripto sredstev (MiCA), ki želi zagotoviti večjo zaščito potrošnikov v Evropi ob boju proti pranju denarja in goljufijam. Vendar je treba ta poseben okvir za digitalna sredstva še vključiti v celotno besedilo.

Poslanec, ki nadzira dokončanje MiCA, Stefan Burger, razglasitve da so se Parlament, Komisija in Svet dogovorili o predlogu zakona. Poleg tega je Burger v svoji objavi jasno povedal, da ni bilo prepovedi dokazovanja dela (PoW) tehnologije, vdelane v neobjavljen račun.

Tako bodo morale institucije, kot je Revolut, z novim pravnim okvirom, ki je v teku, sprejeti te potrebne korake, da postanejo regulirane v okviru trenutne pristojnosti EGP, medtem ko bodo morda deležne nadaljnjega nadzora, ko bo okvir MiCA objavljen. Posledično je Revolut domnevno postal prvi subjekt, ki je dosegel status ponudnika storitev kriptosredstev (CASP) od CYSEC in odprl digitalno banko 17 milijonom strank po vsem EGP.